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         REIGN OF THE SOVEREIGN EMPRESS CATHERINE II
1794 yr.
43. -- June 23. The Nominal, given to the Senate.--
About the collections from those Jews, who had enrolled in citizenship and the merchant class
in the cities, of the established taxes twice over those laid upon citizens and merchants of the Christian
faith of different confessions.
Allowing those Jews, who had registered as citizens and merchants, to administer their
household (civic) and merchant affairs in the Provinces of Minsk, Izyaslav, Bratslav, Polotsk, Mogilev,
Kiev, Chernigov, Novgorod-Severskiy, Ekaterinoslav and in the Taurida Region, [We] order, starting on
the 1st day of the next July, from the aforementioned Jews, who wish to benefit from this allowance, to
collect the established taxes twice over those laid upon citizens and merchants of the Christian faith of
different confessions; to those [Jews] who would not like to remain [in Russia], [We] give freedom to
move out of Our Empire, after paying the three-year double tax, on the basis of the Provisions of the
Cities (P.P.C. 3., v. XXIII, No. 17,224).
Translation by Anastasia Savenko­Moore and Rick Moore, Eugene OR.
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